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There’s a perception that cloud computing has become a “mature” technology, a perception shared by few but anticipated by most everyone else with the exception of those trying to preserve their self-interests. I don’t blame them – each person inherently protects self-interests. They’re wrong though. Cloud is not mature. It is evolving. The paradox is […]

Image via Wikipedia This is the second post in the series on how scientists could use Cloud Computing to their advantage. In this post, I will list out some examples where scientists had taken advantage of the scale and flexibility offered by the Clouds in their research. ALICE HEP Experiment at CERN: A group of scientists working at CERN on […]

Image by Image Editor via Flickr The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Project at CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the largest particle physics project in the world, collecting enormous amounts of data. To give you a perspective on the amount of data we are talking here, let me quote this article from Yahoo News. […]